Garment-hanger.



PATENTED OCT. 3l, 1905.

G. S. ROBERTS. GARMBNT HANGER.

APPLIOATION FILED DBO. 27, 1904.

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GEORGE S. ROBERTS, OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1905.

Application filed December 27,1904. Serial No. 238,322.

To @ZZ whom it, may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved device for hanging garments to prevent them from becoming creased or misshapen.

It consists of the features of construction set out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the device in question. Fig. 2 is a detail section at the line 2 2 on Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail section at the line 3 3 on Fig. V1.

The principal part of this device is designed for a coat-hanger, and the leading purpose of the construction is to adapt the device to support a coat hung upon it at the shoulders, so that whatever be the slope of the shoulder it will be supported substantially over the whole length from sleeve to collar, and thus will be prevented from either sagging out of shape or being stretched out'of shape by having thewhole weight supported upon a single point, as is liable to be the case when no provision is made for accommodating the support to the slope of the shoulder. For this purpose the device comprises a rigid transverse bar A, which has means for supporting it, consisting in the particular construction shown of a hook B, extending from the middle point of the bar upward, so that it may be hung. At the two ends of the rigid transverse bar A there are pivotally mounted on said bar shoulder-rockers O C, which are pivoted to the bar intermediate the ends of the rockers, respectively, both ends of said rockers being free from any attachment Whatever, so that the rocker is free within certain limits to accommodate itself angularly about its pivot to the garment which is hung upon it, and it will be seen that whichever end of the rocker lirst receives the weight of the garment that end will be depressed and the other end will rise until the slope of the rocker corresponds to the slope of the shoulder of the garment, so that the weight will be distributed over the whole length of the shoulder-piece of the device and over the whole length of the shoulder of the garment, and thus distributed the weight of the garment tends to keep the shoulder properly shaped instead of distorting it. The limits of the rocking movement of the rockers are determined by the shoulders A A on the bar A, the llower side of the rocker being stopped on the opposite ends of the shoulder at these limits, respectively; also the ends A2 of the bar A stop the rockers at the position shown in full line, limiting the downward movement of the outer end. The outer end of each rocker is suitably curved downward to avoid presenting upward any angle or abrupt termination which might distort the garment, and at the inner ends the rockers are curved upwardly to extend within the collar of the garment. These details of form are only incidental and to a limited extent important. In respect to this part of the inventionto wit, the coat-hanger-I do not limit myself to the specific form of the parts, but only to providing the rockers which are free at both ends, so that they may accommodate themselves about their pivot, as described, to the slope of the shoulder of the garment. In connection with this form of coat-supporting device I prefer to provide underneath the cross-bar A means for supporting a vest and trousers or other garments which may be similarly hung.

For the vest-support I construct a wire frame integral with the hook B, formed substantially as seen in Fig. l, the wire being inserted through the cross-bar from below and formed into the hook B above the cross-bar, the portion below the bar being bent so as to extend close along its lower edge'for a suitable distance B and being preferably secured to the bar by astaple t', outward from Which at b2 it is bent downward away from the bar and then outward toward the end of the bar for a suitable distance to form at the part B2 a lodgment for the shoulder of the vest. It is then bent to form a long horizontal eye or loop B3, symmetrically disposed with respect tothe middle line at which the wire extends through the cross-bar to form the hook B, and the wire is bent up from the upper side of such loop at a point corresponding to the downward bend made at 722 and extended into and preferably through the bar, so that it may be clenched above the same, as seen at B4. Thus bent the bar has, as it will be observed, a shoulder-support B20 at the opposite side from and corresponding to the shoulder-support B2 for a vest. The lower side of the horizontal eye B3 is designed to afford support for trousers reeved through the eye and ICO IOS

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hung folded over said lower side; but since a garment thus folded over a mere wire` would be liable to become lcreased or marked as by' a fold at the point at which the weight would be sustained on the wire, I provide'a'bar D, preferably of wood, lodged in the loop or eye and engaged therewith by having its ends 4 lillustrated in Fig. 2.

`I claim.-

l. In a garmenthanger, in combination with a rigid transverse. bar and means for supporting it, two shoulder-rockers pivoted each intermediate its ends at the two ends respectively ofthe transverse bar, each rockerhaving both ends free, for rocking overv the'pivot.

2. In a 4garment-hanger, in combination with a yrigid transverse bar and means extending upwardly vfrom its middle point for suspending it, two shoulder-rockers pivoted each intermediate its ends at the two ends of the transverse bar, each rocker having both ends free, `for rocking over the pivot.

.3. In a garment hanger, in combination with a rigid transverse bar and means for supporting it, two shoulder-rockers pivoted each intermediate its ends to the two ends respectively of the transverse bar, each rocker having both ends free, for rocking over the pivot, and means for limiting the downward movement of the 4outer ends of therockers.

4c. I In a garment hanger, 'in combination with ay coat-support a horizontally-extended eye or l'op d'epending'from such coat-support Vhaving sloping upper sides and a straight bar having itsupper edge convex in cross-section lodged in the eye and engaged with the end thereofl for a trousers-hanger.

5. In a garment-hanger, in combination with a rigid transverse bar, A, the shoulderrockers, B, B, pivoted thereto; means for supporting thetransverse bar eonsistingof the hook,v C, made .of an integral piece of wireor rod inserted through thecross-bar and having below the latter the long horizontalloop offset from the lower side ofthe bar at the outer portions of such. loop vtoform shoulder-supports for a vest, and having theend of the wire engaged with the bar, A.

6. In a garment-hanger 1n .combination with a coat-support comprising arigid transverse bar, a vest and trousers support carried by such bar below the same consisting ofa wire loop or eye attached to the bar .at two points and offset below the bar from said points outward to the two .ends respectively, and a relatively wide bar lodged in' 4the eye on .the lower bar of the latter and engaged witht'he ends of the eye.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two witnesses, at Chicago, Illinois, thisV 1st day of December,

GEO. S. ROBERTS,...

`In presence oli-.- g

. CHAs. S. BURTON,

FRED. G. FISCHER. 

